FC Grimma
| FC Grimma | |||
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Grimma football club | ||
| Seat | Grimma , Saxony | ||
| founding | July 1, 2009 | ||
| Colours | Red White | ||
| president | Frank Weike | ||
| Website | www.fc-grimma.de | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Alexander Kunert | ||
| Venue | Friendship Stadium | ||
| Places | 10,000 | ||
| league | Saxony League | ||
| 2018/19 | 1st place | ||
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The FC Grimma is a football club in the northwestern Saxon town of Grimma . He uses the stadium in the city's hussar sports park , which has a capacity of 3000 spectators. The president of the association is Frank Weike.
Development of the club structure
FC Grimma has its origins in SV 1919 Grimma, which was founded on June 17, 1919. In 1922 the sports club, the most important department of which was the soccer players, already had 269 members. After the Second World War it was dissolved in 1945 as part of the general ban on sports clubs in the Soviet occupation zone . After that, sports competitions were temporarily only permitted at district level, which were carried out by provisionally formed sports communities. After East German sport had been reorganized on the basis of company sports associations (BSG) from 1948 , the Nagema machine factory in Grimma took over the existing sports community and promoted it to BSG Nagema Grimma. The name was changed to BSG Stahl and BSG Motor West at short intervals until the name BSG Motor Grimma was finally established in 1958. The name of the carrier operation changed from the Nagema in 1952 the VEB machine and apparatus Grimma. As usual, the BSG maintained several sports sections, of which only football gained supraregional importance. In 1990 the machine factory was no longer able to support the company sports community in the usual way due to the change in economic conditions caused by the fall of 1989 . As a result, the registered association SV Motor Grimma was founded on June 27, 1990 by BSG members in order to develop other sources of finance. On October 4, 1994, the association completely separated from the former sponsoring company and took on the historical name SV 1919 Grimma again. The sports club had meanwhile developed into a large multi-discipline club with twelve sports departments and over 700 members. After lengthy negotiations, the football department separated from SV 1919 on July 1, 2009 and founded their own club, FC Grimma.
Development of the sport of football
From 1925 to 1933 the 1st soccer team of SV 1919 Grimma 2a class of the Leipziger Fußballgaus, the 3rd league in the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs, played . The club ended the season 1932/33 as a season winner and was then classified in the newly established 1st district class. From 1938 to 1942, SV 1919 was relegated twice and ended its existence in the 3rd district class.
In 1948/49 SG Grimma took part in the Saxon soccer championship in the Leipzig soccer district. After a 10th place BSG Nagema was integrated into the third-class district class Leipzig in 1949/50 and reached rank 4. A year later, BSG Stahl won the final of the Leipzig district championship against Lokomotive Beucha with 3-2. In the Leipzig district class, which had become fourth-class for the 1951/52 season, Stahl Grimma came second. After the reorganization of the GDR soccer leagues, the BSG Motor West played in the third-class Leipzig district league . Grimma played there until 1984, apart from 1959 to 1960 and 1978 to 1980, when the team was relegated to the district class.
In 1984 BSG Motor became district champion and was thus qualified for the promotion games to the second-rate GDR league . After three wins and one defeat against Rot-Weiß Erfurt II, Grimma rose to the GDR league. BSG Motor played in the second division for five years and achieved their best result with fourth place in the 1985/86 season. 1989 had to start with ten points behind to a non-relegation place the gang back to the district league. There, the company sports association ended the GDR football operation in 1990 with third place.
The BSG Motor Grimma was relatively successful in the GDR-wide FDGB soccer cup competition . The team was able to qualify for the competitions a total of seven times, in 1968 and 1971 as district cup winners, in the remaining years as a GDR league team. In the 1969/70 season, Grimma made it to the quarter-finals as a district league team, only there they were defeated by the Oberliga representative FC Karl-Marx-Stadt with 1: 5. BSG Motor played a total of 13 GDR cup games, of which it won five.
With the 3rd district league place in 1990, the newly founded SV Motor had qualified for the then fourth-class Landesliga Sachsen . In 1997, SV 1919 Grimma became the Saxon national champion and thus rose to the northeast soccer league . There the team achieved the best placement in the 1999/2000 season with 4th place. The 2005/06 season ended for SV 1919 after only five wins in 30 games with the penultimate place, so that the team had to relegate back to the Landesliga Sachsen. The regional league has been the sixth highest division since 2008. In the 2018/19 season they became regional champions in Saxony with a 14 point lead and have been back in the major league since 2019/20.
successes
- Promotion to the GDR league in 1984
- Promotion to the NOFV amateur league in 1997
- Champion of the Sachsenliga 2019
- Promotion to the major league in 2019
Personalities (selection)
- Jens Härtel (* 1969) was a youth player at BSG Motor and later played for FSV Zwickau in the 2nd Bundesliga
- Rainer Lisiewicz (* 1949) was a soccer coach at both BSG Motor and SV Grimma
- Harald Sather (* 1960), member of the board of directors of FC Grimma, was a Bundesliga referee and FIFA assistant referee
- Horst Zedel (* 1930) began his football career at BSG Motor and later was a GDR league player at SC Empor Rostock
- Egon Pape, president since the spin-off from SV 1919 Grimma and the new head of FC Grimma e. V.